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wage-worthy

wage-worthy adjective: worthy of receiving wages; deserving (of) pay.

Adjective

wage-worthy (comparative more wage-worthy, superlative most wage-worthy)

  1. Worthy of receiving wages; deserving (of) pay.
    • They are doing a wage-worthy work but they are not paid for it. Instead the fathers think their duty is done when they give to the daughters as a benevolence what they, the fathers, think the daughters should have for their needs and pleasures.1915, Martha Foote Crow, The American Country Girl
    • Waring (1988) gives a funny example of how men's activities are seen as the use of valuable time and hence are wage-worthy, while women's activities are seen as something they ought to do out of the goodness of their hearts, without time [...]2005, Drude von der Fehr, Anna Jonasdottir, Bente Rosenbeck, Is There A Nordic Feminism?

Forms of wage-worthy

comparativemore wage-worthy
superlativemost wage-worthy
alternative formwageworthy

Origin of wage-worthy

From wage + -worthy.

Questions about wage-worthy

What does wage-worthy mean?
Wage-worthy means worthy of receiving wages; deserving (of) pay.
What part of speech is wage-worthy?
Wage-worthy is an adjective.

Words near wage-worthy in the dictionary

  1. wage-push inflation
  2. wage-slave
  3. wage-slaved
  4. wage-slaves
  5. wage-slaving
  6. wage-worthy
  7. wageable
  8. wagecel
  9. wagecels
  10. wagecuck
  11. wagecucks

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